Sprint will begin shipping pre-orders on or around Thursday, May 24th -- or at least that's the plan. There's no word on a larger rollout quite yet.

Here's the company's official statement on the matter:

Sprint expects to begin shipping HTC EVO 4G LTE for arrival on or around Thursday, May 24 to customers who pre-ordered the device online from Sprint. We will provide details on the full national launch as soon as possible.

Of course, the EVO 4G LTE is probably a bigger deal for Sprint than it is for HTC, as we've discussed extensively. As a result, it's certain Sprint is a lot more relieved by the device shipping than even HTC is.